A person who was named by police as an individual of curiosity within the 2021 homicide of rapper/music exec Younger Dolph has been killed. In accordance with Memphis’ ABC 24, relations recognized Joshua Taylor because the sufferer of a deadly capturing within the metropolis on Wednesday afternoon.
At press time it was reported that there was no suspect but because the investigation is ongoing; a spokesperson for the Memphis Police Dept. had not returned calls requesting extra info on the case at press time. Taylor (who reportedly glided by the alias CEO Teezy) was named as an individual of curiosity within the Dolph homicide case in February 2022 and in response to the repot he was needed on quite a lot of different expenses, together with theft of property between $10,000-$60,000 and possession of a prohibited weapon.
Fox 13 reported that Taylor was discovered shot to demise inside a automotive and that he was thought to have been a pal of Justin Johnson, one of many two alleged shooters who’ve been charged in Dolph’s killing. Police by no means charged Taylor immediately within the killing and he had not been talked about within the case, although investigators reportedly needed to search out out if Taylor knew the place Johnson was on the day of Dolph’s killing or if he knew something concerning the homicide.
Dolph (born Adolph Robert Thornton Jr.), was gunned down whereas buying at Makeda’s Cookies close to his boyhood residence in Memphis in Nov. 2021. Final week, Jermarcus Johnson, 26, pleaded responsible to a few counts of accent after the actual fact after officers stated he helped two different males through the daytime ambush killing.
Johnson was the primary of 4 defendants to plead responsible or be convicted in Dolph capturing.
